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Category Archives: Inequality
FTX and the Corruption of America
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Thanks to the FTX swindle, we now know the cost of a get out of jail free card in America: $40 million, paid to political elites. It seems even get out of jail free cards have suffered … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Law, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged 'U.S. Department of Justice, Corporate Crime, coruption, DOJ, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, elits, financial crisis, ftx, law, Oligarchy, PR, Rule of Law, Sam Bankman-Fried, SEC, the Securities and Exchange Commission
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Peering Into the Crystal Ball, We See… Instability Leading to Collapse
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds We can only choose one: open, dynamic stability (evolution) or autocracy (instability and collapse). When the fundamentals of life change, every organism must evolve or die. This is equally true of human organizations, societies … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Authoritarianism, Autocracy, Collapse, dynamic equilibrium, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, Evolution, evolutionary churn, financial crisis, Kleptocracy, Oligarchy, stability
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Billionaires, Bunkers and Brain Damage
“The rich are not like us” By Mickey Z. Source: Dissident Voice Douglas Rushkoff has an article (based on his latest book) called “The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse,” in The Observer. This excerpt gives you an idea of how … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged culture, Douglas Rushkoff, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Oligarchy, Philosophy, society, Survival of the Richest, Technocracy
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The Fourth Turn, Turn, Turn
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The cycles of The Fourth Turning, Fischer and Turchin are all in alignment at this point in history.. The 1997 book The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy proposed a cyclical pattern of four 20-year … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Ages of Discord, Consumerism, David Hackett Fischer, Degrowth, Economic Collapse, Economics, Energy, environment, financial crisis, Income Inequality, Industry, Neil Howe, Oligarchy, Peter Turchin, technology, The Fourth Turnind, The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History, transition economy, Wealth Gap, William Strauss
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THE ELITES WHO ARE JUST SO OVER HUMANITY
The depth of anti-humanist sentiment related by Douglas Rushkoff in his latest book, Survival of the Richest, is harrowing and illuminating. By Chris Barsanti Source: PopMatters Some things can be horrifying even if unsurprising. One such moment is the opening anecdote … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Inequality, media, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged anti-humanism, capitalism, Douglas Rushkoff, Dystopia, elites, elitism, Elon Musk, Futurism, libertanianism, materialism, media studies, Oligarchy, Scientism, social sciences, sociopathy, technology
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Powerful New Evidence that U.S. Is A Dictatorship
By Eric Zuesse Source: The Duran Because the U.S. Government flaunts itself as being a democracy instead of a dictatorship and it coups and invades and overthrows and replaces (“regime changes”) Governments that it declares to be dictatorships instead of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged Aristocracy, Authoritarianism, Cold War, congressional elections, coruption, Deep State, Democracy, Dictatorship, empire, fascism, geopolitics, imperialism, Oligarchy, social science, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Totalitarianism, war
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The United States Does Not Have an Economy
By Paul Craig Roberts Source: PaulCraigRoberts.org The US financial sector has long looted other countries. A number of participants have described the process. First a country is enticed with bribes to the leaders to take out loans that cannot be serviced or … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged austerity, Corporate Globalization, corporate media, Covid-19, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, IMF, Lockdowns, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Russia, Sanctions, Technocracy
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What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. “Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy”?
Covid, Capitalism, Friedrich Engels and Boris Johnson By Colin Todhunter Source: Global Research “And thus it renders more and more evident the great central fact that the cause of the miserable condition of the working class is to be sought, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Big Pharma, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Health, imperialism, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Africa, Boris Johnson, capitalism, Covid-19, culture, Debt Crisis, Economic Collapse, empire, financial crisis, Friedrich Engels, geopolitics, IMF, imperialism, Public Health, society, Technocracy, Welfare, Work, World Bank
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Desultory Heroics 